On 7/21/15 6:23 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2015 18:10:27 Ansel Sermersheim wrote: >> The most common use case of this is creating a QMap<QString, X> that is >> sorted case insensitively. The STL allows this for std::map, and coming >> to Qt from a background of standard C++ I was amazed that this very >> common use case was not supported. > Right, we usually work around this by having QMap<CaseInsensitiveString, X>.
Certainly possible to do, but sometimes quite awkward depending on the situation. > This is something we should fix or 6.0, if we can accept the source > compatibility break against forward declarations of QMap. > > I don't see the need to do the same for QHash. How often do people need a > different comparator and/or a different hashing function for a given class > type? I have in the past used non-standard hashing and equality functions for std::unordered_map, but I will admit it is far less common. Ansel Sermersheim _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
